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Pretty Decent for Business Reporting
What do you like best about the product?
Robust software with multiple features relevant for business reporting.
Software supports automated delivery and auto refresh. BO supports large reports too.
Software supports automated delivery and auto refresh. BO supports large reports too.
What do you dislike about the product?
BO has a very small community, and most of the support you find online is pretty outdated.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Solving large reporting delivery. The feature related to publications is very handy.
Simply to Use
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and search for exactly what you want and need. The system uses excel as a base and functions similar to a pivot table so it's relatively easy to manipulate data.
What do you dislike about the product?
You have to be quick to export data. You can't leave the system open because it can cause other issues. Simply go in and get the data you need and copy and paste it into another worksheet.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
There's some software issues where I've had issues clicking through the screens requiring me to use the tab button and enter key instead. It's a work around but highlights other issues the system has.
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) good experience
What do you like best about the product?
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) good software which supports management reporting and make analysis reports to make decisions fastly in any organization.
What do you dislike about the product?
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) did not identify any dislilke but some configuration are very technical and need to experience staff to monitor this configuration with SAP integration.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In our organization, we are using SAP S4/Hana and we have utilized BOBJ for management reporting after integration with SAP. We present dashboards and pad reports for managment.
Good base analytics tools
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of dragging and dropping in the system is great for a base user. The ability to write custom SQL is awesome for higher-level users for customization for what is needed.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a lack of new features and more analytical-driven tools. The company is looking for more dashboard orientated, real-time embedded tools, and this is lacking.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Extracting data from our core system, data mining/validation, automated reports that are scheduled for our end users and clients. Automation of company reporting.
A little difficult to use but reliable
What do you like best about the product?
This is very helpful for pulling various customer sales metrics, including dollar revenue, units, and volume. There are various other universes that you can use to get accurate data cut by timing, customers, etc.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike that this system is not super user friendly in terms of trying to learn how to use it. There are several steps to starting a report, and I think there could be improvements in design of the pages.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have used this to solve problems related to diving into low sales for certain products or geographies, and looking into what the best selling items are so we can make recommendations for customers.
Easy quick reporting
What do you like best about the product?
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) is an easy method to create reports with tables and charts from a database. The reports can be easily set up to run automatically, so no further manual handling is required once the report is set up.
What do you dislike about the product?
Although SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) in general works quite well, it can be a bit difficult to get the reports to output in excel correctly. In addition, it would be nice if it was easier to copy over information and tables from one report to another report.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) to quickly create reports to respond to urgent questions and to send out reports automatically to colleagues.
SAP BI/BO
What do you like best about the product?
Reporting part webi tool is good it has many features like IDT and UDTand crystal reports.
What do you dislike about the product?
the colors are extremely bad compared with Tableau and other reporting tools
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are connecting with SAP BI/BW and using it as a Reporting tool.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
For faster access of data you can use this tool.
Easy to use, commonly known reporting tool
What do you like best about the product?
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) offers a lot of features to its users. The most used functionalities are report scheduling, query building, retrieving queries built by other users, accessing different databases, building dashboards, and generating data exports. These are the functionalities that I like the best.
What do you dislike about the product?
First-time users need training on basic data querying. Also, users need to know which universes, data tables, data fields that they need to execute the queries. The data formatting can be challenging for users (using different data separators).
The upgrade process of SAP BO is very tricky. User experience may decline two years after the initial installation. And at some point, the SAP BO becomes just a data query tool. At that point, people start using Excel to visualize the data.
In summary, I don't particularly appreciate reformating data or using an outdated version of the SAP BO because of undone upgrades. The major downside is, however only experienced users can start using it on day one.
The upgrade process of SAP BO is very tricky. User experience may decline two years after the initial installation. And at some point, the SAP BO becomes just a data query tool. At that point, people start using Excel to visualize the data.
In summary, I don't particularly appreciate reformating data or using an outdated version of the SAP BO because of undone upgrades. The major downside is, however only experienced users can start using it on day one.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This tool helps the controlling, finance, and marketing departments of organizations. It enables users to visualize, analyze the collected data in ERP systems. It can access not only SAP systems but also other third-party systems.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I recommend that organizations reserve their controlling departments as power users of SAP BO. These power users should create training, user manuals for other users within the organization.
Comprehensive Data Analytics Platform
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use and easily integrated into other spreadsheets. SAP Business Objects is a great tool for data analysis and was useful for our team to develop informed strategies for growth. Our data team was able to code and use additional queries to help customize our search.
What do you dislike about the product?
SAP Business Objects is a powerful tool that can be used to accomplish a variety of data requests. It is not an easy to learn platform and isn't very intuitive for first-time users. This program requires attention, training and help for users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Recently, SAP BusinessObjects was instrumental in informing our strategies to move into a virtual setting in light of Covid. Specifically, the tool allowed our team to separate out different users and groups more likely to engage in new virtual programs and target our marketing efforts accordingly.
It facilitates the manipulation of data and to better understand the information
What do you like best about the product?
The speed in being able to obtain valuable data
What do you dislike about the product?
In the web version, when a lot of data is handled, it gives a loading error.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Better understand the business and user behaviors.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
it is a very good tool to manipulate data. Very stable
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